Exam 4: Justifiable Homicide, Consent, and Defence in the Penal Code

Under Section 80, the exception of accident is available when an offence is committed while:

Give incorrect response. The following are the essential conditions of criminal liability.

The right of private defence is contained in

Give correct response. A sees Z commit what appears to A to be murder. A in the exercise of the best of his judgment, exerted in good faith of the power which the law gives to all persons of apprehending murderers in the act seizes Z, in order to bring Z before the proper authorities, Later it was found that Z was acting in self-defence. Here:

A Bus driver suddenly without any fault or negligence on his part finds himself in such a position that before he can stop the bus he will run down a school children metador unless he incur the risk of turning the bus running down a Rickshaw poles. He choose second option

Point out incorrect response. The following are ingredients of section 79 of the Indian Penal Code:

A an officer was ordered to arrest B, believing Z to be B, he arrest Z.

If death of a major person is caused with his consent, suffers death or takes the risk of death with his known consent:

Which is correct:

Right to private defence is:

The maxim ignorantia juris non excusat does mean :

Sec. 76 says -- Nothing is an offence which is done by a person who is or who by reason of :

X while in the state of voluntary intoxication kills Z. prosecution fails to establish that X could form an intention of a sober man. X is guilty of:

The defence of consent applies to

Point out incorrect response. The following are the ingredients of the defence of accident under section 80 I.P.C. :-

A&B, swimming in the sea after ship wrecked, got hold of a plant not large enough to support both. A pushes of B who is drowned. In this case of B who is drowned. In this case :

A man in order to escape death from hunger kills another for the purpose of eating :

The accused was convicted of bigamy having gone through ceremony of marriage within 7 years after she had been deserted by her husband. She believed in good faith that her husband was dead. In this case :

Give correct response. A and his wife W went to have dinner with a friend. He carried his gun with him, and before going to dinner he discharged the gun and kept it in a private place in his friend's house. A, then went to church after dinner and in the night returned home with his gun. He carried the gun in the room. He in taking it up touched the trigger and the gun went off and killed the wife. It was found that when A was away to church another man had privately taken the gun out to shoot and had returned it loaded to the place where it was put in the friend's house. In this case :

A is at work with hatch, the head flies off and killed a person